She wanted his charisma in her, merged with her, giving her what without which Nobody would ever vote for me.

And it reminded me of what I was saying as I watched the long encounter between Obama and Hillary on that stage last night. I was wondering why she does that wide-open-mouth/insane-elation thing with her face, and my theory was that she's stuck making the best of doing appearances where she needs to look like the person who is intensely loved but she does not believe she is loved.

Next to Obama, the feeling must be excruciating. Obviously, he is loved. He's been loved for so long. The love he naturally attracts overwhelmed her earnestly entitled effort to become President 8 years ago. And now, here he is on the stage, doing his easygoing routine one more time, as if it's for her, and it's supposed to be a big deal for the candidate to unexpectedly hit the stage a day early, but everyone's loving on him.

What added impact can she have? It doesn't matter. She must get out there and act the part of the person everyone's been longing to see, even though the person they love to see is already out there, owning the stage. She must pretend she's the one they want. She must!

Mania is a state of abnormally elevated arousal, affect, and energy level, or "a state of heightened overall activation with enhanced affective expression together with lability of affect." Although mania is often conceived as a “mirror image” to depression, the heightened mood can be either euphoric or irritable; indeed, as the mania intensifies, irritability may become more pronounced and eventuate in violence.

There's a Kliban cartoon of an inmate sitting at his table, in his cell, in a hospital for the criminally insane. Bars on the window. On the table in front of him is his little string collection. His facial expression indicates that his internal stress level is rising rapidly. The nurse is taking away his food tray and there's a loose thread hanging off of her blouse sleeve.

I have seen several clips during this election cycle where Hillary is drunk. People call them seizures or can't figure our what she is doing. She is an alcoholic under pressure and staring a historically bad electoral defeat in the face.

Cross posted from an earlier post, but Achilles' comment makes it appropriate here...

"Ms. Meadows, Clinically Depressed Therapist"

My patients, they look to me to tell them that it will be okay when Obama is gone. They say that, just maybe, Hillary might be wonderful, too, but you can tell by their imploring eyes they don't believe it...

As a Therapist, I can confidently say that Hillary suffers from chronic depression, masked by moments of delusional grandeur and excessive alcohol. How can I inspire my patients when I know that Hillary will never live through a full term? How can I help them when there is no Help to be had, anywhere? The alcoholism they suffer, just to make it through another day? Hillary has that, too...

At least when Hillary blacks out drunk and hits her head on the floor there are Secret Service Agents and Doctors right there to help her. The best my patients can expect is to fall down drunk, split their head open on the corner of a table, and slowly, inexorably bleed out, to perhaps be discovered days later by the landlord due to complaints about the smell. And their cat will be taken to a shelter, abandoned and euthanized. That is where we are going, people...

I am very drunk, but I will drive to the Liquor Store to get more alcohol. It's OK, I make the drive drunk all the time...

Blow up the picture, and look at Hillary's tongue--there is a dark spot on it, almost as if it is a lesion or surgical scar. What's up with that? Let's have a complete release of her health records, including info on the "concussion". Maybe Vlad has those records as well...

I've been at one banquet event with Hillary. During her will-i-or-won't-i stage. There was loads of love for the woman in the room. And it was not a Hillary-specific event. I'm sure she gets plenty of affirmation wherever she goes. As she did in '08, where she got more votes but was beaten in caucuses. But undeniable that she lacks star power of Bill and Barack, who both started running for stuff at much earlier ages.

Why wouldn't she be happy? She is the first woman nominee for a major party and has two lovely grandchildren and a wonderful daughter. She's achieved something she worked long and hard for. She defeated her many foes who for years tried to bring her down. I bet when she becomes the first woman president she'll laugh even more joyfully, just to annoy you folks.

I know. This wide open hysterical looking "gaping maw" (perfect) look is really troubling. It is as if she can't just smile or laugh normally. She must be over the top. Huge!!! Maybe she thinks it reduces the wrinkles of a normal smiling face.

The other thing that she does, which we routinely make fun of, is that when coming on stage or in public in addition to the giant fake open mouth thing, she waves and points at random people in the crowd as if she personally is singling them out for her favor or attention. We say. "Oh look. Hillary is point to her imaginary friends again". Point, wave, gaping maw smile, rinse and repeat. I often wonder if the people she is pointing at turn around and see who is behind them that she is waving at. Wut me?

Then there is the fake and horrible, spine chilling, hair raising cackling laugh she has.

Like a robot or alien who is programmed to imitate humans but really hasn't quite got the programming perfected. The result is off putting, creepy and just not right.

Its probably not "fair" -- although that never seems to bother liberals when making fun of republicans -- but with her transition into retail politics in 2000 she has never displayed any real skill. Her speaking voice is horrible, and she looks fake. Its as if she knows she's lying or uncomfortable and has to act. And she's a bad actor.

That is the laugh of someone who doesn't want to laugh. It is the same thing with forced smiles- they are often exaggerated in form. I am beginning to think literally everything she does is a lie of some kind.

The facial expression, even IF she was actually laughing instead of faking it, is entirely inappropriate.

NOTHING is that gut busting hysterically funny in the situations that she is in when pulling that face. Unless you are stoned, high on some drug, drunk or maybe all of the above, people don't go hysterical and hee haw in that fashion over things that aren't that funny.

"Next to Obama, the feeling must be excruciating. Obviously, he is loved. He's been loved for so long. The love he naturally attracts overwhelmed her earnestly entitled effort to become President 8 years ago. And now, here he is on the stage, doing his easygoing routine one more time, as if it's for her, and it's supposed to be a big deal for the candidate to unexpectedly hit the stage a day." early, but everyone's loving on him."

I know a lot of people have made fun of still shots of Trump but I'm not one of them. And it does seem to me like Clinton's looks are a sustained theme of critique around here and elsewhere. And I think that kind of sucks.

You have complete control over your appearance while laughing? How special.

If people liked her, it might be different, but she has earned her dislike. 6 in 10 people don't like her, so she is going to get mocked. But hey! This is who the billionaires chose to lead your party!

I think the comments above are on the right track with the focus group / look of exuberance idea. When I drive to New Orleans on I-10, there is a section in Mississippi where all the casinos have these fields of billboards. In almost all of them the models have open mouthed laughs to show they are having such a wonderful time. There is some psychology there, I think Hilary overdoes it.

That's the issue with her. Not just the gaping maw, but the head-thrown-back-cortle when some interviewer nails her on a point of impropriety, or the crowd pointing. She lacks natural social skills or human empathy, so she fakes everything, all the time. Plus, she's seen Bubba get away with the fakery for the past 25 years so she thinks she should too. Kind of pathetic.

Don't know if she's drunk but it's been obvious since at least the mid-90's that she's a regular user of benzos. The pensive vagueness combined with the overreaction in moments of laughter and anger are a dead giveaway.

I really though she would dust-off the clap-clap-wink-wink-point-point that she used back in 2008. It looked a little phony, but it was appropriate. I don't know who would advise her to use the gaping maw of hell.

"Just hours before Democrat Hillary Clinton is set to make history in Philadelphia as the first woman to accept her party’s U.S. presidential nomination, a new Suffolk University poll of likely general-election voters in Pennsylvania shows Clinton with a commanding lead over Republican Donald Trump. In a two-way matchup, she led Trump 50 percent to 41 percent, with 8 percent undecided."

DBQ highlights one of the great phony politician stunts, the point and acknowledge someone (no particular one) in the crowd. Its that in-girl nod to the person you saw at the party last night, the special party no one else was invited to.

The Clinton's invented that trick I believe. It is so hideous, so cringe making, so horrible.

Hilary is at best "STAFF OFFICER" material. She is not a leader. Few if any would follow her in to combat to reach an objective by passing through the combat zone. The voters sense this and they recoil from her tawdry attempts to identify with them as a result. She will go down into defeat because she has not earned the trust of the voters.

I've always assumed she was overcompensating for a perceived lack of friendliness. The take on Hillary has always been that she is out of touch and unapproachable. Since she doesn't really know what real humor look like, she mimics the most obvious features.

"Just hours before Democrat Hillary Clinton is set to make history in Philadelphia as the first woman to accept her party’s U.S. presidential nomination, a new Suffolk University poll of likely general-election voters in Pennsylvania shows Clinton with a commanding lead over Republican Donald Trump. In a two-way matchup, she led Trump 50 percent to 41 percent, with 8 percent undecided."

7/28/16, 1:14 PM

Oh... so we're going to start playing the 'citing polls that favor our candidate' game 3+ months prior to the election - okay...

Trump leading Hillary by largest margin yet in latest pollhttp://nypost.com/2016/07/27/trump-leading-hillary-by-largest-margin-yet-in-latest-poll/

Speaking of fees. Hillary may refuse to come on stage until the split of the Donor Cash Money is negotiated between Bill and Obama's Consiglieri, Valeri Jarrett, and those Persians are tough negotiators.

BTW, look closely at Hillary in that picture. What's that prominent, dark, round spot on her tongue? Is it merely a defect in the photo or could it be a scar that's leftover after surgery to remove a growth (possibly pre-cancerous) from her tongue?

I think things like this are persuasion coaching, but Hillary is just bad at performance. Like how she'll point at the negative space between several people and shake her head in a "nice to see you again" recognition. Everyone surrounding the negative space she's pointing at wonders if she's recognizing them, but its a bad persuasion act intended to create faux emotional bonds - she isn't pointing at anyone. The same with these exaggerated facial emotions. In the hands of a master on stage exaggerated facial emotions are charisma dynamite to manipulate a crowd, but in the hands of someone with some persuasion coaching but who didn't pick up the coaching well, the exaggerated emotions are just... awkward.

"The Cry" rings true, but I see it as Hillary Agonistes, the primate's agonistic warning signal: "They open their mouths widely in a manner like human yawning…last warning before attacking" https://twitter.com/SissyWillis/status/759340979983749120

I've noticed this tendency to manic expression in other women activists on the left, increasingly a common signal of solidarity of a dedicated sisterhood. Jeanne Kirkpatrick never displayed this kind of expression, nor did Thatcher and certainly not Merkel, who always looks downright glum. FDR, Truman, Hubert Humphrey, Reagan ... all were happy warriors and genuine in their emotions, not so these girls, and what does that say?

Between the Mars Attacks alien voice "ak ak AK ak AKAK!" and the total failure to display normal human expressions pretty sure we can put the mark in the "psychopath" column.

Whether it's alcoholic psychosis or a rich stew of several cataclysmic stressors is less important than the frightening fact that far too many voters are letting the lie factory of the lapdog media hypnotize them into putting this awful, awful woman anywhere close to the reins of power. This she-caligula, this personification of the uncanny valley, is a monster. Nightmare fuel.

The one good argument for voting for Trump (besides preserving the Second Amendment): If Trump gets elected president, Queen Cacklepants--with her hyena laugh, her crazy-eye-killa facial expressions, and the Gaping May of Doom-- goes away. The Clinton Gang may be back, especially when the Hive's media arm decides to anoint Chelsea, but we'll be rid of the Dowager Empress.